diff --git a/build/dependencies.props b/build/dependencies.props
index c3c9818c5c..5e711b3020 100644
--- a/build/dependencies.props
+++ b/build/dependencies.props
@@ -2,10 +2,8 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <AspNetCoreVersion>2.0.0-*</AspNetCoreVersion>
     <AspNetIntegrationTestingVersion>0.4.0-*</AspNetIntegrationTestingVersion>
-    <CoreFxVersion>4.3.0</CoreFxVersion>
     <InternalAspNetCoreSdkVersion>2.1.0-*</InternalAspNetCoreSdkVersion>
     <MoqVersion>4.7.1</MoqVersion>
-    <NETStandardImplicitPackageVersion>$(BundledNETStandardPackageVersion)</NETStandardImplicitPackageVersion>
     <NETStandardLibraryNETFrameworkVersion>2.0.0-*</NETStandardLibraryNETFrameworkVersion>
     <RuntimeFrameworkVersion Condition="'$(TargetFramework)'=='netcoreapp2.0'">2.0.0-*</RuntimeFrameworkVersion>
     <TestSdkVersion>15.3.0-*</TestSdkVersion>
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.Abstractions/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.Abstractions.csproj b/src/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.Abstractions/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.Abstractions.csproj
index 9aa583a2ab..ce28342a90 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.Abstractions/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.Abstractions.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.Abstractions/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.Abstractions.csproj
@@ -8,14 +8,10 @@
 Commonly used types:
 Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.IStringLocalizer
 Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.IStringLocalizer&lt;T&gt;</Description>
-    <TargetFramework>netstandard1.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
     <NoWarn>$(NoWarn);CS1591</NoWarn>
     <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
     <PackageTags>localization</PackageTags>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
-  <ItemGroup>
-    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.CSharp" Version="$(CoreFxVersion)" />
-  </ItemGroup>
-
 </Project>
diff --git a/src/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.csproj b/src/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.csproj
index 91c482bba2..2d28e46cb0 100644
--- a/src/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.csproj
+++ b/src/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization/Microsoft.Extensions.Localization.csproj
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <PropertyGroup>
     <Product>Microsoft .NET Extensions</Product>
     <Description>Application localization services and default implementation based on ResourceManager to load localized assembly resources.</Description>
-    <TargetFramework>netstandard1.3</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
     <NoWarn>$(NoWarn);CS1591</NoWarn>
     <GenerateDocumentationFile>true</GenerateDocumentationFile>
     <PackageTags>localization</PackageTags>
@@ -22,8 +22,4 @@
     <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Abstractions" Version="$(AspNetCoreVersion)" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
-  <ItemGroup Condition=" '$(TargetFramework)' == 'netstandard1.3' ">
-    <PackageReference Include="System.Resources.Reader" Version="$(CoreFxVersion)" />
-  </ItemGroup>
-
 </Project>
diff --git a/test/ResourcesClassLibraryNoAttribute/ResourcesClassLibraryNoAttribute.csproj b/test/ResourcesClassLibraryNoAttribute/ResourcesClassLibraryNoAttribute.csproj
index 8d1ee5362e..f8709d199c 100644
--- a/test/ResourcesClassLibraryNoAttribute/ResourcesClassLibraryNoAttribute.csproj
+++ b/test/ResourcesClassLibraryNoAttribute/ResourcesClassLibraryNoAttribute.csproj
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <Import Project="..\..\build\common.props" />
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>netstandard1.0</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
 </Project>
diff --git a/test/ResourcesClassLibraryWithAttribute/ResourcesClassLibraryWithAttribute.csproj b/test/ResourcesClassLibraryWithAttribute/ResourcesClassLibraryWithAttribute.csproj
index e6fe455e4b..064c787110 100644
--- a/test/ResourcesClassLibraryWithAttribute/ResourcesClassLibraryWithAttribute.csproj
+++ b/test/ResourcesClassLibraryWithAttribute/ResourcesClassLibraryWithAttribute.csproj
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   <Import Project="..\..\build\common.props" />
 
   <PropertyGroup>
-    <TargetFramework>netstandard1.3</TargetFramework>
+    <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>